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Neil Cohen

  • Title or Role: General Counsel - S2K
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Neil Cohen has more than 20 years of real estate and legal experience. Prior to joining S2K he was the Director of Finance and Strategic Initiatives for NorthStar Realty Finance Corp., where he focused on their alternative investment and broker-dealer business. He was also a Senior Associate with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft and an Associate with Herrick, Feinstein, and before that in-house tax counsel to the predecessor of NorthStar and a Senior Associate with PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Mr. Cohen earned a B.S. from the University of Maryland and a J.D. from the Cardozo School of Law.

Mary Lou Malanoski

  • Title or Role: CFO - S2K
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Mary Lou Malanoski has more than 30 years of experience on Wall Street in various roles. Prior to joining S2K she was the Chief Operating Officer at Morgan Joseph TriArtisan, where she served as Head of Banking and Chief Financial Officer. She was a founder and principal of New Street Advisors, a boutique broker-dealer, and New Street Investments, a firm focused primarily on non-control investments in private companies, and before that a senior team member at New Street Capital, a private investment firm which managed the assets of the successor to Drexel Burnham Lambert.

Ms. Malanoski began her career as an investment banker at Drexel Burnham Lambert. She also is a member of the Board of Directors for Phibro Animal Health Corporation and Getty Realty Corp. She earned a B.A. from the Rosemont College and an M.B.A. from The Johnson School of Cornell University.

Steven Kantor

  • Title or Role: CEO - S2K
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Steven Kantor is the CEO of S2K and has over 35 years of principal investing and investment banking experience including as the former Global Head of Real Estate for Credit Suisse. Throughout his career he has raised, originated, loaned and invested hundreds of billions for REITS, CMBS Loans, acquisitions and other real estate companies via IPOs (took over 100 companies public). Prior to founding S2K, Mr. Kantor was Global Head of Investment Banking at Cantor Fitzgerald, as well as Chairman and Co-Founder of CCRE, Cantor Fitzgerald’s affiliated commercial real estate lending platform. Mr. Kantor earned a B.A. from Syracuse University and a J.D. from American University.